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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G. K. Chesterton

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People

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